“if you’re looking for enlightenment it’s not going to happen on a oil tanker”
― The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
― The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
“Some of these people have been heading there, unavoidably, for months; others made a bad choice just a few days ago.”
― The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
― The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
“The men could only look at each other through the falling snow, from land to sea, from sea to land, and realize how unimportant they all were. —SHIP ON THE ROCKS, NEWBURYPORT, MASSACHUSETTS, 1839, NO SURVIVORS. (SIDNEY PERLEY, Historic Storms of New England, 1891)”
― The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
― The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
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